The court said in a statement that Vitalmiro Moura was not given enough time to prepare his
defense in 2010 when he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. The court said Moura will remain in
prison until he is retried at a yet-to-be-scheduled date.

Stang, a Dayton native, worked for three decades to preserve the rain forest and defend poor
settlers’ land rights.

Prosecutors have said that Moura ordered her killing because she blocked him and another rancher
from taking land the government gave to farmers.

The northern Brazilian state of Para, where Stang was gunned down with six shots at close range,
is notorious for land-related violence, contract killings, slavelike labor conditions and wanton
environmental destruction.